Pakistan greets Bangladesh on Independence Day

Pakistan has greeted Bangladesh on its Independence and Nationwide Day, expressing confidence that the “bonds of friendship” between the 2 nations could be additional strengthened within the years forward “to the mutual good thing about our two peoples”.

The Liberation Warfare of Bangladesh broke out after the sudden crackdown at midnight on March 25, 1971 within the erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by the Pakistani troops and ended on December 16. The identical 12 months Pakistan conceded defeat and unconditionally surrendered in Dhaka to the allied forces comprising the liberty fighters and Indian troopers.

On March 26, 1971, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had proclaimed Bangladesh’s independence.

“It offers me immense pleasure to convey honest felicitations to the Authorities and folks of Bangladesh on the 51st anniversary of the Individuals’s Republic of Bangladesh,” Pakistan International Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi stated in a message addressed to his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momen on Saturday.

Qureshi stated he was “assured that the bonds of friendship between our two nations, that are based mostly on shared historical past, frequent religion and spirit and spirit of fine neighbourliness, could be additional strengthened within the years forward, to the mutual good thing about our two peoples”.

Earlier in a media briefing on the sidelines of an official perform in Dhaka on Saturday, Momen demanded that Pakistan ought to apologise to the individuals of Bangladesh for committing extreme atrocities in the course of the 1971 battle and cautioned that an apology would act as a guiding mild for future governments in Islamabad towards committing such abominable acts.

“I at all times say the Pakistanis needs to be ashamed as their army troops carried out genocide in Bangladesh which was acknowledged even in a Pakistani authorities report,” he stated, including, “It’s regrettable that Pakistan is but to hunt apology…on today, I anticipate Pakistan to formally apologise.”

Formally three million individuals had been killed and and a minimum of two lakh girls had been raped by Pakistani troops in the course of the nine-month lengthy Liberation Warfare.

Momen stated Islamabad additionally deviated from a promise they made to deliver to justice accused of battle crimes.

“If Pakistan doesn’t realise it (that it ought to apologise), chances are high there they may do such misdeeds in future as properly,” Momen stated.